Cito Gaston
Atlanta Braves 1967; San Diego Padres 1969–1974; Atlanta Braves 1975–1978; Pittsburgh Pirates 1978
Percentile snapshot
1971 season — qualified batters
of 113 qualified 1971 batters (min 499 PA)
Career, era-adjusted
wRC+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; OPS+ measured against qualified careers (3,000+ PA), 2,078 of them; sWAR measured against every career in history, 24,011 of them. Only era-adjusted career stats carry a percentile — a raw career total gets a rank instead, because pooling the 1890s with the 2020s is a choice, not a measurement.
Season by season
Batting
| Season | G | PA | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | SO | SB | CS | BA | OBP | SLG | OPS | wRC+ | OPS+ | wOBA | sWAR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967 | 9 | 27 | 25 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | .120 | .120 | .200 | .320 | -24.9 | -9.4 | .144 | -0.3 |
| 1969 | 129 | 419 | 391 | 20 | 90 | 11 | 7 | 2 | 28 | 24 | 117 | 4 | 4 | .230 | .275 | .309 | .585 | 64.3 | 65.6 | .275 | -0.2 |
| 1970 | 146 | 629 | 584 | 92 | 186 | 26 | 9 | 29 | 93 | 41 | 142 | 4 | 1 | .318 | .364 | .543 | .907 | 144.2 | 143.3 | .404 | 5.8 |
| 1971 | 141 | 547 | 518 | 57 | 118 | 13 | 9 | 17 | 61 | 24 | 121 | 1 | 0 | .228 | .264 | .386 | .650 | 84.1 | 87.2 | .297 | 1.0 |
| 1972 | 111 | 403 | 379 | 30 | 102 | 14 | 0 | 7 | 44 | 22 | 76 | 0 | 2 | .269 | .313 | .361 | .674 | 96.7 | 96.7 | .313 | 0.7 |
| 1973 | 133 | 500 | 476 | 51 | 119 | 18 | 4 | 16 | 57 | 20 | 88 | 0 | 0 | .250 | .281 | .405 | .686 | 90.1 | 93.5 | .310 | 0.4 |
| 1974 | 106 | 289 | 267 | 19 | 57 | 11 | 0 | 6 | 33 | 16 | 51 | 0 | 0 | .213 | .259 | .322 | .581 | 59.4 | 64.4 | .271 | -0.8 |
| 1975 | 64 | 159 | 141 | 17 | 34 | 4 | 0 | 6 | 15 | 17 | 33 | 1 | 0 | .241 | .321 | .397 | .718 | 93.1 | 96.4 | .330 | 0.3 |
| 1976 | 69 | 147 | 134 | 15 | 39 | 4 | 0 | 4 | 25 | 13 | 21 | 1 | 0 | .291 | .354 | .410 | .764 | 113.8 | 110.5 | .358 | 0.6 |
| 1977 | 56 | 93 | 85 | 6 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 3 | 21 | 5 | 19 | 1 | 0 | .271 | .301 | .424 | .725 | 77.7 | 82.5 | .321 | 0.0 |
| 1978 | 62 | 126 | 120 | 6 | 28 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 9 | 3 | 20 | 0 | 0 | .233 | .248 | .267 | .515 | 38.9 | 45.3 | .240 | -0.7 |
Career totals
A total is called out only where it ranks in the all-time top 500; hover a figure for its rank and the size of the field it was ranked in. Ranks are absolute facts and carry no percentile — the population for "career home runs" would be an editorial choice, and the rank is not.
Best games
Batting
| Date | Game | AB | R | H | 2B | 3B | HR | RBI | BB | TB |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1976-08-03 | SD @ ATL Gameday | 3 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 1 | 9 |
| 1970-09-04 | SD @ CIN Gameday | 6 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 8 |
| 1970-05-26 | CIN @ SD Gameday | 4 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 8 |
| 1971-05-04 | ATL @ SD Gameday | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 8 |
| 1973-05-06 | PIT @ SD Gameday | 5 | 1 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 7 |
Pitching
| Date | Game | IP | H | R | ER | BB | SO | HR |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1967-05-11 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1967-05-14 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1967-05-20 | PIT @ ATL Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1967-06-30 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 1967-07-01 | ATL @ PIT Gameday | 0.0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Ranked from our own play-by-play game log, which begins in 1901 — not from the record book, so a career played outside it shows nothing here rather than a short list.
Honors
Major awards only — the awards table also records Player of the Week, and forty of those would bury seven MVPs. Hover for the years.